Why did this Boston entrepreneur found his biotech startup in California?

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — By all rights, Felix Wong and his firm ought to be in Massachusetts.

Wong, 33, was born in Quincy, graduated from Braintree Excessive Faculty, and spent a decade dwelling in Cambridge, the place he earned two levels from Harvard and labored as a post-doc at MIT. His dad and mom nonetheless stay in Massachusetts, and he now leads a startup in biotech, an business Boston has owned for the higher a part of twenty years.

However on a latest Wednesday, Wong was in sunny Silicon Valley, strolling within the shade of the jacaranda bushes close to the mountaineering path outdoors his workplace and reflecting on the artistic spirit of California.